Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Kindling

Confused on how you should feel about the death of the book and the rise of the e-reader? Concerned that buying an iPad might be, to some extent, the equivalent of bringing about the untimely end of traditional books?

Maybe this cover would be of interest to Evgeni, a poster to youthVOICES: a place where students share, distribute and discuss their digital work online. This young letter writer posts a letter to Ray Bradbury, praising the influence of Fahrenheit 451 on his enjoyment of books...and suggesting that e-books are preferable to those pesky paper ones that destroy trees.